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JAMES G. LINDSAY, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGN OR OF ONE- HALFTO ALBERT L. BONNAFFON, OF SAME PLACE.

METALLIC FENCE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 488,210, dated December20, 1892.

Application filed June 24:, 1892. Serial No. 437,830. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JAMES G. LINDSAY, of the city of Philadelphia andState of Pennsylvania, have invented a certain new and usefulImprovement in Metallic Fences; and I do hereby declare the following tobe a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had tothe accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification.

[O Myinvention has relation to metallic fences, and consists in theconstruction hereinafter particularly described ahd claimed.

In the accompanying drawings Figure l is a sectional view illustratingthe preferred x5 form of my invention. Figs. 2 and 3 represent sectionsof rails and the orifices provided therein. Fig. 4 illustrates a sectionof post with a slot provided therein for the reception of the rail ends.

A represents the post having the rail ends, 0, O, engaged in position ina slot, 8.

P is the securing key having the short prong, p, and the long prong, p,joined together by the short arm, p The prongs, p, p, are separated fromeach other at a distance about equal to the width of the post, A, andare constructed to fit neatly around the said post. The prongs, p, 19,pass through the registering orifices provided in the rails,

0 C, O, which may be individual orifices, 0, as in Fig. 3, or anelongated orifice, 0',to include both prongs of the key, as shown inFig. 2, the lower end of the prong, p, is bent or clinched down upon therail, 0, after having been driven through and into position, with thearm, 19 in close proximity with the outer edge of the post, A. Theprong, p, is preferably of a length to just pass through the two rails,O, C, in orifices, 0, or 0, provided for the purpose.

The object of my invention is to provide a securing device for metallicfences of a construction which willalloW a rapid assembling and erectionof fence, at the same time producing a strong and secure fastening atthe joints, securing the rails at each joint not only rigidly togetherbut firmly to the post. As will be seen the ends of the rails may bequickly adj usted in position in the slot, 8, and

the key, P, then readily driven home and clinched on the inside drawingand holding the three parts rigidly and securely together. Having thusdescribed my invention What I claim and desire to secure by LettersPatent, is:

05 In a metallic fence in combination with the post, A, and rail ends,0, O, a key, P, having two prongs, p, p of unequal lengths engaged onopposite sides of the post, A, connected through the medium of theright-angled arm, 0 said prongs passing through the orifices provided inthe rails, O, C, having the end of the long prong,p bent against therail, 0', at right angles to line of the'main length of the prong 19,substantially as described. In Witness whereof I have hereunto set myhand this 23d day of June, A. D. 1892.

JAMES G. LINDSAY.

Witnesses HENRY A. MCCARTHY, HORACE PETTIT.

